mort666
New member
Just thought I would put a post up here after PM'ing back and forth to Dal earlier today about the possible accommodation for the rally show.
I had a looked on the travelodge's website for ashbourne for staying the friday and saturday nights and found this when I chose the room:
As you can see, it states 'Almost full' next to the room.
Although people seemed to like ashbourne, it may be worth looking at alternatives, especially as the premier inn seem to be doing a lot of their £29 a night offers recently (mainly if you stay two nights or more). Unfortunately their offers are only valid for rooms up to the middle of April at the moment, but I can't think of any reason why they should stop doing them after this period.
thinking about that, there are a few premier inns near by which are currently doing the offer. As for the drive in, we wouldn't get the nice country roads that we would from Ashbourne, but I'm sure that wouldn't be the end of the world. As for distance from Chatsworth, Ashbourne is about 20 miles from the house. The ones doing the offer at the moment in a reasonable distance are:
Ripley - 20 miles - where is started and ended my dales meet this year
South Normanton / Mansfield - 22 miles - just on J28 of the M1 (where I did the previous dales meet to and from)
Chesterfield - 10.5 miles - handy as it's close and also right next to a big tesco so handy for fuel and munchies to take with us.
All of them have pubs next door to them which will be handy for food and drink and the Ripley and Chesterfield ones are reasonably close to pubs and resturants, about a similar distance to going into ashbourne. Of course the downside of chesterfield is the muppet/chav population out 'on the lash' in the centre of town but I'm sure we could avoid most of them
Any thoughts/questions/comments welcome. Thought I'd just do my bit to help out on this one
Perhaps it's a good idea to see if the premier inn people extend their offers into later into 2010
I had a looked on the travelodge's website for ashbourne for staying the friday and saturday nights and found this when I chose the room:
As you can see, it states 'Almost full' next to the room.
Although people seemed to like ashbourne, it may be worth looking at alternatives, especially as the premier inn seem to be doing a lot of their £29 a night offers recently (mainly if you stay two nights or more). Unfortunately their offers are only valid for rooms up to the middle of April at the moment, but I can't think of any reason why they should stop doing them after this period.
thinking about that, there are a few premier inns near by which are currently doing the offer. As for the drive in, we wouldn't get the nice country roads that we would from Ashbourne, but I'm sure that wouldn't be the end of the world. As for distance from Chatsworth, Ashbourne is about 20 miles from the house. The ones doing the offer at the moment in a reasonable distance are:
Ripley - 20 miles - where is started and ended my dales meet this year
South Normanton / Mansfield - 22 miles - just on J28 of the M1 (where I did the previous dales meet to and from)
Chesterfield - 10.5 miles - handy as it's close and also right next to a big tesco so handy for fuel and munchies to take with us.
All of them have pubs next door to them which will be handy for food and drink and the Ripley and Chesterfield ones are reasonably close to pubs and resturants, about a similar distance to going into ashbourne. Of course the downside of chesterfield is the muppet/chav population out 'on the lash' in the centre of town but I'm sure we could avoid most of them
Any thoughts/questions/comments welcome. Thought I'd just do my bit to help out on this one
Perhaps it's a good idea to see if the premier inn people extend their offers into later into 2010
